Tag: Sudanese Church of Christ

Unlawfully detained for months, Sudan church leaders finally in court

August 5, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Apostasy, Bahri, Churches, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudanese Church of Christ, Yat Michael

After nearly eight months of legal limbo, a Sudanese court has finally seen three detained Christian leaders, while charges against them remain officially “unknown”. Hassan Abduraheem Taour and Kuwa Shamal, both Sudan Church of Christ (SCC) pastors, and Abdulmonem Abdumawla Issa Abdumawla, appeared at the Bahri Criminal Court for a . . . Read More

Khartoum re-arrests pastor, holds others ‘pending serious charges’

May 27, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Bahri, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Sudanese Church of Christ, Telal Rata

Five months since his initial detention, Sudan’s intelligence agency has re-arrested a local pastor. Rev. Kuwa Shamal joins at least two more Christian leaders in prison, awaiting charges that could carry the death penalty. He was re-arrested on May 24 by members of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) . . . Read More

Sudan: pastor released, but others held

January 15, 2016 Sudan Bahri, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Sudan, Sudanese Church of Christ

The charges against a Sudanese pastor have been dropped, following a court hearing in Khartoum, but four other church leaders are still being held. Hafiz Mengisto, leader of Khartoum’s Bahri Evangelical Church, was taken to court for challenging a government employee overseeing the destruction of parts of the church complex . . . Read More

Sudan threatens to arrest church leaders

January 18, 2012 Sudan Darfur, Khartoum, Kosti, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, Sudanese Church of Christ

Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments has threatened to arrest church leaders if they carry out evangelistic activities and do not comply with an order for churches to provide their names and contact information, Christian sources said. The warning in a Jan. 3 letter to church leaders of the . . . Read More

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Unlawfully detained for months, Sudan church leaders finally in court

Khartoum re-arrests pastor, holds others ‘pending serious charges’

Sudan: pastor released, but others held

Sudan threatens to arrest church leaders

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